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Category Archives: Music

Will Dunham, bassist with the Middletown-area band Call Me Geppetto, draws some puzzled looks as he and bandmate Bill Deyback play on Broad Street in Red Bank last Saturday night. Expect to see more instrument-mounting musicians out on the streets...
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June 2nd, 2009 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit kicks off our coverage of the 23rd annual Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival with a preview of what to expect this weekend as the early-season attraction takes over Marine Park with a bill...
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June 1st, 2009 @ 7am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit gets a jump on the weekend via an interview with a performer we call The Hardest Working Woman in Shore Business. That would be Jody Joseph — cousin to both Jon Bon Jovi and...
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May 28th, 2009 @ 8am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit offers a preview of something that's become a summertime staple: the return of Red Bank Street Life, the series of free outdoor mini-musicfests that take place at the sidewalks and storefronts each Saturday night....
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May 26th, 2009 @ 9am
It's Memorial Day weekend, in case you haven't heard, and already the first tentative notes of the warm-weather music season are wafting out over the greater Red Bank oRBit. We're just a couple of weeks from the Red Bank Jazz...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 10am
Count Basie Theatre board member (and Basie Awards host) Siobhan Fallon-Hogan, Education Director Yvonne Lamb Scudiery, and CEO Numa Saisselin at April's announcement of this year's nominees. By Tom Chesek A Romeo, a Juliet and a thoroughly modern Millie were...
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May 21st, 2009 @ 6am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, our always hyper-current arts and entertainment web companion, takes a little quantum leap into the future, with a look to the months ahead at Red Bank's own Two River Theater. The powers that be...
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May 20th, 2009 @ 12pm
Here's a tasty slice from last Saturday's appearance by A Love Like Pi (featured last Thursday on our companion site, Red Bank oRBit) at Jack’s Music Shoppe in Red Bank. The show drew more than 100 fans. Video is by...
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May 19th, 2009 @ 2pm
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit features an exclusive interview with a performer who will play the magnificently made-over Count Basie Theatre with an act that represents a major makeover to her own public persona. You may know Linda Eder...
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May 19th, 2009 @ 7am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit rolls out the red carpet for a preview of this week's Count Basie Theatre Awards, the annual event that honors the best of Monmouth County's high school performing arts productions. We'll give you the...
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May 18th, 2009 @ 12pm
A mix of pix from some of Saturday's events: the Nathan J. Williams Craftsmen Club's motorcycle rally on Drs. Parker Boulevard; Red Bank Community Day at Count Basie Fields; and the Relay for Life overnight fundraiser at Red Bank Regional....
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May 18th, 2009 @ 8am
They've done it again. For the third time in three tries, the students at Red Bank Middle School have written and performed in a video that's made it to the finals in a national or international competition. The first time,...
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May 15th, 2009 @ 12pm
The event was born of last year's centennial event and picnic at Count Basie Fields. What: Second annual Red Bank Day, four hours of food, music and neighborliness, followed Sunday by tours of historic homes in the borough. Where: Count...
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May 15th, 2009 @ 11am
Now rubbing elbows in oRBit: a buzz-generating band of twentysomething musical talents and a favorite local artist who marks her 90th birthday this weekend. Hailing from Middletown and Highlands, A Love Like Pi celebrates the release of its ambitious debut...
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May 14th, 2009 @ 6am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a close look at High School Reunion: The Musical, the latest original show by local-kids-made-good Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. They're the Emmy-nominated TV writers and producers who return to Monmouth County...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 10am
Scenes from last year's post-parade picnic on Centennial Day, the precursor to Saturday's Red Bank Day. (Click to enlarge) At the picnic that followed the parade for Red Bank's Centennial last year, Mayor Pasquale Menna was telling everyone he wanted...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 8am
Over on our sib site Red Bank oRBit, a special week of musically minded coverage climaxes today with a lookahead at three days' worth of sublime sounds from all imaginable corners of the local tunescape. Beginning with a big Pink...
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May 8th, 2009 @ 7am
Today's Red Bank oRBit has a first look at Private Lives, the latest (and last of the season) production at Two River Theater. As you'll see, it's an old warhorse of the British stage — Noel Coward wrote and originally...
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May 7th, 2009 @ 7am
You've read all those stories about the legendary and long-gone Upstage club, but do you ever wonder where your favorite Shore musicians get together these days to talk music, make connections and just jam on whatever tune comes to mind?...
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May 6th, 2009 @ 7am
Music Week marches on in Red Bank oRBit, as today we rate your chances of soaking up some much-needed tuneshine this Cinco de Mayo. With options that range from the Latin sounds of Asbury Park's Xol Azul and Perth Amboy's...
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May 5th, 2009 @ 10am
Partyline
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...